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The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. After outlining the main dimensions of rural change, the book progresses from a discussion of theoretical insights into rural restructuring to a consideration of both the extensive use of rural land and the changing nature of rural economy and society. The text places an emphasis on relevant principles, concepts and theories of rural change, and these are supported by extensive case study evidence drawn from di.

Beschreibung des 1978/79 begonnenen Resettlement-Programms für die schwarze ländliche Bevölkerung: zugrundeliegende Kriterien, Charakterisierung der drei zur Anwendung kommenden Modelle, Skizzierung des bislang erfolgten Umsiedlungsprozesses, knappe Hinweise auf dabei auftretende Probleme (Bevölkerungswachstum, Squatters, Planung und Verwaltung, Kosten, Pachtsysteme)

1. Introduction : twenty-first century rural Australia / John Connell and Rae Dufty-Jones -- 2. The role of gender in the migration practices and aspirations of Australian rural youth / Rae Dufty-Jones. [and more] -- 3. Urban to rural elderly migration : renewing and reinventing Australia's small ruralatowns / Amanda Davies -- 4. Immigrant settlement in regional Australia : patterns and processes / Graeme Hugo -- 5. "They have no concept if what a farm is" : exploring rural change through tree change migration / Danielle Drozdzewski -- 6. Difference or equality? : settlement dilemmas on the indigenous estate / John Taylor -- 7. Challenging mining workforce practices : implications for frontline rural communities / Alison McIntosh and Kerry Carrington -- 8. Trajectories of change in rural landscapes : the end of the mixed farm? / Fiona McKenzie -- 9. Water reform in the 21st century : the changed status of Australian agriculture / Erin F. Smith and Bill Pritchard -- 10. Rural place marketing, tourism and creativity : entering the post-productivist countryside / Chris Gibson -- 11. Soft country? : rural and regional australia in country style / John Connell -- 12. 'Not just drought' : drought, rural change and more : perspectives from rural farming communities / Louise E. Askew, Meg Sherval and Pauline McGuirk -- 13. Evolving metabolic relations : nature resources and people in the hunter valley / Phil McManus.